In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun. Those rocks originate from a small number of ...
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...
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